Today's News

The Aggressive Criminal Enforcement (ACE) Team is a support unit, whose primary functions are traffic enforcement and assisting in the apprehension of drug traffickers in the county. The ACE team conducts driving while impaired and driver’s license checkpoints, as well as street-level investigations on controlled substances.
The ACE team works with the sheriff’s office K-9 Enforcement Team and Drug Enforcement Unit to apprehend narcotics suspects as well as saturating hot spots where criminal activity is reported.

Agents with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit executed a search warrant at 3327 Stone Chimney Road in Supply last week, which led to the seizure of prescription medication as well as drug paraphernalia.

According to sheriff’s office spokesperson Sgt. April Stanley, two suspects were arrested in connection with the Stone Chimney Road search warrant. Drug agents seized Suboxone, a controlled prescription medication, as well as numerous items of drug paraphernalia from the home.

Agents with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit executed a search warrant at 871 Mill Creek Road in Bolivia on Nov. 4, after receiving community complaints that heavy drug traffic was occurring at the home.

Agents investigated the residence for about two months before ending the investigation with the search warrant and arrest of Michael Rethanial Davis, according to Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Sgt. April Stanley.

The Brunswick County Literacy Council (BCLC) welcomed a new executive director the first of October. Dorothy (Dot) Hoerr joined the team at the BCLC with an enthusiasm for reaching more residents in the upcoming year.

“An estimated 51 percent of Brunswick County residents, approximately 42,000 people, ages 16 and older, read at no higher than a fourth-grade level,” Hoerr quoted from the BCLC brochure.

Not much has changed in the past two weeks—at least as far as election results are concerned.

Friday’s elections canvass didn’t change any results from the General Election, almost two weeks earlier on Nov. 4, Sarah Ashcraft, deputy director of the Brunswick County Board of Elections, said following Friday morning’s canvass.

Ashcraft said the canvass determined the number of votes received by write-in candidates.

SUNSET BEACH—Once it's permanently out of commission, the old Sunset Beach pontoon bridge will be moved to a site on the mainland.

Members of the Old Bridge Preservation Society announced Thursday night that, thanks to local business owners Ronnie and Clarice Holden, the old bridge will be relocated to a lot across from the Sunset Beach Fire Station.

Announcement came at a celebratory party and press conference at the Bridge Grill on Sunset Boulevard.

BOILING SPRING LAKES—The South Brunswick Cougars were running on all cylinders Friday night as they cruised by the Washington Pam Pack (Pamlico Packing Co.) 39-7 in the first round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association Class 3A state playoffs.

“Respect all, fear none” is the Cougars’ motto in the playoffs, as the defense feared no one, holding the opposition to 7 points, its second best total of the year. (It held Topsail to 7 points Sept. 3.) The offensive line was crushing its opponents.

SUPPLY—Johnston Community College missed a score-tying 3-pointer in the final seconds as Brunswick Community College beat JCC 80-77 Saturday in the BCC Classic at the Dinah E Gore Fitness & Aquatics Center.